{"id":4975,"date":"2012-07-22T22:17:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T02:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2012-07-22T22:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T02:17:02","slug":"back-on-murder-by-j-mark-bertrand-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4975","title":{"rendered":"Back on Murder by J. Mark Bertrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=brandbooks-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=B004EYUFYO\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;float:left;margin:10px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Lars has already reviewed Mark Bertrand&#8217;s detective novel, <i>Back on Murder<\/i>, so it may already be on your To-Read list. I finished it Friday and loved it. At the start of the novel, Roland March is &#8220;a suicide cop,&#8221; the officer in the homicide department who does the legwork no one wants to do after a fellow officer kills himself. Though March made a name for himself years ago and had the respect of whole department, his one famous case killed a part of him and has been dragging him down ever since. When a house full of gang members is found shot up, March notices a detail that sticks with him, irritating him into taking risks that only further distance him his teammates. But will those risks pay off?<\/p>\n<p>Layer onto the murder case the disappearance of a beautiful blond teenager, one who looks like the other good-looking teenagers you&#8217;ve seen on national news, but this one is the daughter of godly widow, a pillar of her Houston mega-church. Is it possible the two are related, or is March just hoping for another high-profile case to put his career back on track?<\/p>\n<p>The novel&#8217;s title sums up the detective&#8217;s ambition, that is, to be fully restored in the Homicide department, no longer a burn-out and convenient scapegoat for odd police jobs. He wants respect. He wants to be trusted as the lead on another murder case, not just suicide clean-up work.<\/p>\n<p>As the story develops, we see the great pain March carries and shares with his wife, Charlotte. He&#8217;s continually dropping hints about it, and the narrative gradually reveals without telling too much. It&#8217;s impressive really. Bertrand has a strong novel here, and I look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/mn\/landing\/B001JS2SN4\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=1343008702&#038;sr=1-1&#038;tag=brandbooks-20\">forward to the next two.<\/a> March definitely has staying power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lars has already reviewed Mark Bertrand&#8217;s detective novel, Back on Murder, so it may already be on your To-Read list. I finished it Friday and loved it. At the start of the novel, Roland March is &#8220;a suicide cop,&#8221; the officer in the homicide department who does the legwork no one wants to do after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back on Murder by J. 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